50 Cent says he was 'kidding' when he released woman's sex tape, thought she wouldn't mind

50 Cent says that the woman's then-boyfriend said she wouldn't mind if the tape was out. (Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Rapper 50 Cent was only kidding when he taunted rival Rick Ross by claiming he had succeeded in making Ross' ex-girlfriend "a porn star" by releasing a private sex tape she made with a new boyfriend, a jury heard Tuesday.

Speaking in a videotaped deposition that was shown to a Manhattan Supreme Court jury, Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson told the woman's lawyers, "that was a joke" when his alter ego "Pimpin' Curly" is heard saying on the sex tape "b---h your baby daddy f--kin with the wrong people."

Lastonia Leviston, the ex-girlfriend of rapper Rick Ross, says the release of the private sex tape damaged her reputation. (Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News)

The Queens-born rapper said Leviston’s then-boyfriend said he had told him she wouldn’t mind if Jackson put it on the Internet.

Levitson, who is suing Jackson, sat passively throughout the taped testimony until Jackson said call girls are like women who work in strip clubs because they are "not sensitive about people seeing her nude."

Leviston, who says she was a topless dancer but never a call girl, shut her eyes tightly and tipped her chin up at that line.